Pardon me for asking the rhetorical question, but where have the Democrats of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's type gone? The ones who would face down the leader of the World's other major nuclear armed country and make them cry "UNCLE!" The ones who would look tyranny in the eye and not blink? The ones who would dare to dream and place a goal of landing on the moon before a nation, to go it alone, only 60 years after the first powered flight? Maybe he ran around with Marilyn Monroe when he shouldn't have, but despite his bad back, John Kennedy had a spine!

John Kerry has no coconut for his desk, no brother who died in an exploding aircraft enroute a bombing mission of Europe, and no vision, and I suspect, sadly, that he has no real vision of his own, let alone one to try to band the Nation together, if he wins this election.

I just have to live on the faith of Romans 8:28 at this point, for it looks like only God can bail us out of this one!

Kerry should just throw in the towel now and get out of the way as our Soldiers hunt down those killers. Bet he could get CBS filming him throwing it over the White House fence....again. Who would really feel safer if Kerry and "his advisors"(the U.N.)were in charge of our military? This is America, the best damn piece of dirt on the planet. Why? Because we know the price paid for Freedom. It's called Courage. The real JFK knew it and paid the price with his life, not a bandaid on his arm.

You win, or lose, your battle first in your heart. Kennedy won his -- even the Cuban missile crisis -- because he knew he would fight to the knife. Because he knew it, his foemen knew it: and they stood down.

Kerry has chosen the worst ground. He wishes to fight from the position that the war he hopes to inherit (!) is 'the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time.' His allies he has branded as 'a fraudulent coalition,' and 'the coalition of the bribed and threatened.' The people he posits as new allies -- especially the Germans and French -- have already said they will not help him if he is elected.

Yes, the circumstances are different. But there are principles that hold. Napoleon said that 'morale is to the physical as three is to one'; and in the martial arts, one is taught that the spirit bests the mind, which bests the body.

In hoc signio vinces. One can write that unashamed on a Miblog, as the military is the last place that honors a command of Latin:

Semper Fidelis
Semper Paratus
De Oppresso Liber

None of those argue for John Kerry.

Negotiate an end to the war? With whom, precisely? With Zarqawi?

Winning the war means stabilizing Iraq, and creating a functional democracy there. This also benefits the United States as it creates a stable trading partner -- which is always a benefit -- out of what was once a violent enemy.

More importantly, it demonstrates that the United States cannot be run off by even a determined insurgency, backed by al Qaeda and Iran. That will improve the prospects for a negotiated solution on future questions, such as the Iranian nuclear program. Many nations believe that, while they cannot beat our conventional forces, they could win a guerrilla war with us. We must demonstrate that this is not true, so that they do not wish to risk a war of any kind.

It will also slow terrorist recruitment worldwide. Al Qaeda grew as strong as it did because people believed Osama's statements that the US would run if pushed. Al Qaeda was the answer, he asserted, that could drive America from the world, making way for the new Islamic world state.

If we are pushed out of Iraq, we'll see followers of that particularly deadly dream rise up from every corner of the earth. If we stand, we can crush that dream in the sands of the Triangle.

Recently, Samara's citizens have run the insurgents out of town. They sought out the Marines for help in doing so, having tired of the insurgents brutality and disruption. That is precisely what we should expect to happen. The insurgency must either expand or collapse, as I wrote, and the factors I explained in the piece suggest that it will dry up its own holes.